Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover had searched the land over for a suitable person to head the Commission he expected to flex out the "inequalities and injustices" of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Scared of Senatorial inquisitions, men he wanted would not take the post. Finally he chose the suave, immaculate guide and counselor of his pre-inaugural South American tour...
...year the U. S. shipped out goods worth $402,000,000; this year, $269,000,000. Imports likewise fell off $133,000,000 for the same month this year and last. The Department of Commerce explained the declines as due to world-wide economic depression. Critics of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act recalled their predictions that the high rates of that measure would have no immediate and severe effect upon U. S. foreign trade...
Obvious was the deduction that Canada is wholeheartedly in favor of Bachelor Bennett's program of "Canada First" and high protective tariffs. A further fact which most U. S. editors privately admitted, few printed, is that the average Canadian today is frankly anti-U. S. The Hawley-Smoot tariff, which Canadians interpreted as directly aimed against their chief exports, crystallized feelings. Both parties promised retaliatory measures. The Conservatives' measures were more severe. They got the votes...
...case against Prime Minister King in one sentence: "He had no policy to cure unemployment and he has not given Canada prosperity." Nationalist Canadians privately added a third accusation: Mackenzie King was pro-U. S. They felt that he was afraid to come out strongly against the Hawley-Smoot tariff. They said that he was too amenable to U. S. interests in the projected St. Lawrence waterways treaty. They knew that he had passed the U. S.-inspired law, objectionable to Canadians, forbidding the export of liquor...
Plans for a Honolulu honeymoon were altered by a telegram from President Hoover asking Bridegroom & Mrs. Smoot to return to Washington, stay at the White House, help get the London Naval Treaty through the Senate...